Asynchrony of antarctic and greenland climate change during the last glacial period

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6695, 1998, Pages 739-743

  Blunier, T ^a   Chappellaz, J ^b   Schwander, J ^a   Dallenbach A ^a   Stauffer, B ^a   Stocker, T F ^a   Raynaudt, D ^b   Jouzel, J ^b,c   Clausen, H B ^d   Hammer, C U ^d   Johnsen, S J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTARCTICA; GREENLAND;

EID: 0032552078     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29447     Document Type: Article

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